Example sentences for: surmounted

How can you use “surmounted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The razor crossed with the fountain pen, surmounted by a box of matches, reminds those in the know that Murphy, the model for the hero of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night , gave up painting to run the family business, Mark Cross pens.

  • By the time he made that picture, though, he had already taken in works by more venturesome Pictorialists that showed the modern city as itself and had produced Railroad Sidings, New York (1914): a couple of willful diagonals of boxcars surmounted by a tangle of rails and a head of steam that has nothing to do with mist.

  • At the summit is one of the oldest stupas in the world, an immense white mound surmounted by a golden cube, on the four sides of which are the astonishing all-seeing eyes of Buddha.

  • The rock in question is a promontory, boldly jutting out into the sea, surmounted by a little white fishermen’s church.

  • Near the highest elevation in Rhode Island in the woods stands a heap of rocks, a marker, about six feet high surmounted by a flat, upright slab adding another two feet to its height.


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